Re: students become cheap billboards There is a pro to that kind of thing. An off-shoot company pays homeless people to hold advertising signs instead of begging for money. That's similar to the rest of us in this Tommy Hilfiger t-shirt world of ours! Only we don't get paid for the advertising we do! Cheap advertising, yes. Giving street people a chance to have some dignity - maybe. It's worse then them getting themselves off the street, but better then teaching some school kids who have a brighter future that they are only worth billboards on their skin, as if clothing labels weren't bad enough.